What are the responsibilities and job description for the Project Program Manager II | Best Starts for Kids Unit position at King County?
The Best Starts for Kids unit within Public Health Seattle & King County is seeking to hire a Project/Program Manager II to join our team!
This Career Service position will be a member of the Best Starts for Kids Data and Evaluation team, which is a cross-departmental team. This posting will be used to fill a position based within Public Health-Seattle & King County's Chronic Disease & Injury Prevention (CDIP) Unit.
This position will provide project management support to the evaluation team for King County's Best Starts for Kids. The primary role is to coordinate, support and provide administrative and project management for annual reporting (including analysis of quantitative and qualitative data), contracts, and project activities to support successful implementation. This role will also manage projects with youth interns, an Evaluation Advisory Group, community partners, and Best Starts evaluators and program managers.
Best Starts for Kids is King County's community-driven initiative to support every baby born and child raised in King County to be happy, healthy, safe, and thriving. Initially approved by voters in 2015 and in place since 2016, Best Starts invests in comprehensive supports for children, youth, young adults, and families and caregivers, catalyzing strong starts in early childhood, and sustaining those gains as children progress to adulthood. Best Starts was renewed by voters in August 2021. Implementation of Best Starts is guided by the BSK Implementation Plan (Best Starts for Kids Implementation Plan), approved by the King County Council in November 2021 for Levy 2022-27.
Public Health - Seattle & King County (PHSKC) is the metropolitan health department serving all of King County. The mission of PHSKC is to eliminate health inequities and maximize opportunities for every person to achieve optimal health. The Department of Community and Health Services (DCHS) manages a wide range of programs and services to assist the county's most vulnerable residents. The department maintains a pro-equity focus aimed at developing the systems and standards necessary to achieve better outcomes for all county residents. DCHS and PHSKC jointly administer Best Starts through a cross-departmental approach.
Public Health's Assessment, Policy Development, and Evaluation (APDE), Chronic Disease and Injury Prevention (CDIP), and Communities of Opportunity (COO) works to advance health equity through its policy and systems work, health prevention and promotion efforts, and data/evaluation activities. The basis of our equity work is a commitment towards becoming an anti-racist system. Operationally, the sections are jointly administered and managed. The Assessment, Policy Development and Evaluation (APDE) unit is a nationally recognized leader in community health assessment, providing health assessment data and analysis to inform planning, programs, and policies; and conducting evaluations of regional and local efforts aimed at improving the health of King County residents.
Commitment to Equity and Social Justice:
Named after Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., one of the most influential civil rights leaders in our nation's history, King County is a vibrant international community with residents that represent countries from around the world. It is a region with increasing diversity that cherishes the traditions of many cultures.
The county government has a deep commitment to equity and social justice and advancing practices, strategies, and policies that promote fairness, justice, and opportunity for all – in our workplaces and our communities. With this commitment, King County has adopted a pro-equity agenda to advance regional change and ensure that residents from all communities are incorporated into our emergency planning and public outreach efforts.
We recognize that structural racism consists of principles and practices that cause and justify an inequitable distribution of rights, opportunities, and experiences across racial groups. Since declaring Racism is a Public Health Crisis in June 2020, King County and Public Health committed to being intentionally anti-racist and accountable to Black, Indigenous and People of Color communities.
To learn more, please visit http://www.kingcounty.gov/elected/executive/equity-social-justice.aspx
This full-time position is open to all qualified applicants.
Monday – Friday | 40 hours weekly, 8a.m to 5p.m.
The work associated with this position will be performed through a combination of teleworking complemented with onsite work and meetings as needed. Employees will have access to shared workspaces at various King County facilities. Employees must reside in Washington state and within a reasonable distance to their King County worksite to respond to workplace reporting requirements.
Employees will be provided with a County issued laptop and must maintain a workspace with an internet connection (access may be supplemented in some situations) where they can reliably perform work and remain available and responsive during scheduled work hours. Please note that when an employee conducts work that is likely to bring them in contact with another individual, safety precautions are required, including the wearing of masks in some situations. King County is doing its part to reduce the spread of COVID-19 and remains committed to reducing our carbon footprint.
King County has a robust collection of tools and resources to support working remotely. The individual selected for this opportunity will be joining an innovative and progressive team that is redefining how we work as we transition to the department's hybrid environment.
- Provide administrative management of time-sensitive projects for the evaluation team including reporting, community engagement, dissemination, requests for proposals, and contracts.
- Provide project management support by monitoring tasks, timelines, and resources for various grants that are managed/implemented by the Public Health Best Starts for Kids Data Team.
- Provide support for team meetings including scheduling, facilitating, notetaking, disseminating, and following up on tasks assigned to team members.
- Assure required documentation and deliverables are met, including timely production and submission of products/deliverables reports, communications products, and local reporting requirements.
- Coordinate and support Data & Evaluation Team (KC internal staff) meetings and Evaluation Advisory Group (consists of Children and Youth Advisory Board member and other evaluation partners) activities.
- Coordinate with Communications team, BSK program managers, information technology, fiscal, human resources, and contracts team as needed.
- Develop, implement, and monitor a paid youth internship program. This will involve identification of projects, soliciting student interest, matching students with projects and mentors, training/on-boarding students, and obtaining feedback to continually improve the program.
- Assist with budget development, provide analysis to support budget recommendations, and monitor financial indicators on behalf of program.
- Provide overall administration of team’s SharePoint site(s) including adding/removing team members, organizing site contents, training team members on proper utilization, and ensuring adherence to King County best practices.
- The project manager may also take on special projects to support the work of the combined sections that consists of Assessment, Policy Development, and Evaluation (APDE), the Chronic Disease & Injury Prevention (CDIP), and Communities of Opportunity (COO).
- Minimum three years of experience in project management supporting a technical team OR any combination of education and experience that clearly demonstrates the ability to perform the job duties of the position.
Equity and Social Justice...
- Knowledge of equity and social justice principles and practices; lived experience with and understanding of the effect of historical and institutional racism and oppression on communities and populations.
- Communicating and facilitating conversations in ways that support team member’s work and understanding of racial and health equity.
Technical...
- Demonstrated ability to apply analytic and creative problem-solving to support projects and teams.
- Demonstrated experience providing project management support for multidisciplinary teams that are working on multiple projects including experience developing and tracking deliverables as well as adjusting scopes of work, workplans, and budgets with support from project leads.
Project management & communication...
- Demonstrated ability to successfully manage complex projects with diverse project teams and effectively communicate across multiple audiences.
- Excellent communication skills (oral, written, in-person, and remote) that is inclusive, responsive, clear, and accurate for diverse audiences (including community members, government leadership, representatives of agencies/organizations, peers, and staff).
- Experience with project management processes, tools, and functions to support teams.
- Demonstrated ability in gathering, analyzing, and presenting information using Microsoft Excel and other Office 365 tools.
- Proficiency using and supporting teams to effectively utilize SharePoint, Microsoft Teams and/or Zoom.
- Ability to manage and prioritize multiple shifting priorities; ability to work under deadlines while being flexible to changing needs.
- Experience working with students/youth to develop their professional skills and providing mentorship to staff and/or students
- Knowledge about public health approaches to improving population health; ability to synthesize information such as using landscape analysis to inform strategic options; familiarity with evaluation and evaluative thinking; experience in partnerships with non profits and community-based organizations.
- Experience developing communication products for diverse and non-technical audiences, such as reports, fact sheets, blogs.
Together, with leadership and our employees, we're changing the way government delivers service and winning national recognition as a model of excellence. Are you ready to make a difference? Come join the team dedicated to serving one of the nation's best places to live, work and play.
Guided by our "True North", we are making King County a welcoming community where every person can thrive. We value diversity, inclusion and belonging in our workplace and workforce. To reach this goal we are committed to workforce equity. Equitable recruiting, support, and retention is how we will obtain the highest quality workforce in our region; a workforce that shares and will help advance our guiding principles-we are one team; we solve problems; we focus on the customer; we drive for results; we are racially just; we respect all people; we lead the way; and we are responsible stewards. We encourage people of all backgrounds and identities to apply, including Native American and people of color, immigrants, refugees, women, LGBTQ , people living with disabilities, and veterans.
No person is unlawfully excluded from employment opportunities based on race, color, religion, national origin, sex (including gender identity, sexual orientation and pregnancy), age, genetic information, disability, veteran status, or other protected class. Our EEO policy applies to all employment actions, including but not limited to recruitment, hiring, selection for training, promotion, transfer, demotion, layoff, termination, rates of pay or other forms of compensation.
If you are interested in pursuing this position, please follow the application instructions carefully. If you need this announcement in an alternate language or format, would like to request accommodation or assistance in the application or assessment process or if you have questions please contact your recruiter listed on this job announcement.
Applications will be reviewed after the job posting closes. The following items are required to be considered for this vacancy:
- NEOGOV/Government Jobs on-line or paper application
- Supplemental questionnaire responses including sample presentation and workplan
- Resume
- Cover Letter
Please do not copy and paste your entire resume, or copy and paste your entire job history, as your answers to the supplemental questions as these will be considered incomplete.
You may attach multiple documents if you wish:
- Copy and paste one or more documents into the text resume section of the application.
- Attach multiple documents/files in the resume attachment section.
Your application materials must validate your answers to the supplemental questions. If your answers cannot be validated, you will not proceed to the next steps of the process.
The selected candidate will be required to pass a thorough background investigation. In the event the job classification requires an exam; an offer of employment will be contingent on passing a pre-employment physical exam and must maintain security clearance.
This selection process may include but is not limited to: evaluation of application materials and supplemental questions, testing and interviewing. For more information on our selection process, please refer to http://www.kingcounty.gov/jobs/applying.aspx
Public Health relies on office automation (Microsoft Office) and web-based enabled tools, therefore candidates must be proficient and comfortable with computer use to perform functions associated with on-going work.
Employees are required to adhere to OSHA/WISHA guidelines including but not limited to completing their mandatory trainings on time and obtaining required immunizations.
Regular and reliable attendance, effective communication skills, and development of effective working relationships are requirements of all Public Health positions.
Employees are required to protect the privacy and security of protected health information as defined in State and Federal Law.
Staff may be required to play an active role in the event of a public health emergency, which may include changes in responsibilities and working hours.
If you need a disability accommodation in the application or testing process, please call the contact number listed on the job announcement.
Non-Represented
For more information about the application process please contact Mark Lacy at Mlacy@kingcounty.gov.
